Exploring Autocapture Events
by PostHog469d1773e9cbNo licenseListed Oct 8, 2026Updated Oct 8, 2026
Guides exploration of $autocapture events captured by posthog-js to understand user interactions, find CSS selectors (especially data-attr attributes), evaluate selector uniqueness, query matching clicks ad-hoc, and create actions. Use when the user asks about autocapture data, wants to find what users are clicking, needs to build actions from click events, asks about elements_chain, wants to build a trend or funnel filtered by clicks or other autocapture interactions, asks which properties autocapture sends, or asks how to filter $autocapture events. Only applies to projects using posthog-js autocapture.
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